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[ENHANCEMENT]: Add seq checkpoints to continuous feeds

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
erlang
Domain
api, databases

Research direction

No files or tests are named. Start by tracing the continuous-feed and filtered-feed handling, then inspect how sequence values are currently emitted and how clients can checkpoint them. Done means the feed provides a reliable tail sequence sentinel during periods without winning revisions, including filtered feeds, with coverage for the new behavior.

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Description

enhancement
Provide a brief overview of what the new feature is all about

When doing a continuous feed it's not possible to get sequences that did not create winning revisions which makes it impossible to follow the feeds update to date sequence relative to create a user side checkpoint.

This is especially important on filtered feeds. Since a row may not arrive for several minutes or hours and the client has no way to create checkpoints during this time. The workaround of using timeout=N is not as nice.

Tell us how the new feature should work. Be specific

Add an option to output some kind of sentinel, e.g. { seq, changes: [], id: null } that a client can use to save an up to date checkpoint at the tail of the db feed.

Not required. Suggest how to implement the addition or change

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